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Teen-Ager Fashion Show at Manchester's

Date: 05 10 1957
Description: Colleen O'Brien, sophomore at East High School, modeling a light blue cotton Dacron dress, with her hand resting on the back of a chair, for a Vogue patter...
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Teen-Ager Fashion Show at Manchester's

Date: 05 10 1957
Description: Colleen O'Brien, sophomore at East High School, modeling a light blue cotton Dacron dress, with her hand resting on the back of a chair, for a Vogue patter...
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Teen-Ager Fashion Show at Manchester's

Date: 05 10 1957
Description: Colleen O'Brien, sophomore at East High School, modeling a light blue cotton Dacron dress, with her hand resting on the back of a chair, for a Vogue patter...
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Portrait of Photographer Edward Steichen

Date: 06 23 1957
Description: Casual portrait of Edward Steichen (1879-1973), photographer and filmmaker, sitting in Aaron Bohrod's studio on the university campus at an informal party ...
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Roundy Coughlin at The HUB

Date: 05 06 1953
Description: Ad for WMTV showing Roundy Coughlin signing a contract with The HUB, his TV sponsor. Pictured with Roundy are Ed Schmitz, Jim Schmitz and Bob Schmitz, own...
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Carson Gulley with Pies

Date: 05 14 1953
Description: Chef Carson Gulley holding two pies and standing in front of a rack of fudge bottom pies. He is posing for a WMTV ad for his cooking show to be broadcast ...
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Gov. Walter Kohler Signing a Document

Date: 06 03 1953
Description: Five men standing behind Gov. Walter Kohler watching him sign a document in his office. One of the men might be Paul Thielan from Brookfield, Wisconsin.
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Sinaiko Brothers Filling Station Employee

Date: 06 17 1953
Description: Man standing in the interior of the Sinaiko Brothers Filling Station, 760 Regent Street. Good view of a service station restroom in the background with the...
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Julius Sinykin

Date: 07 18 1953
Description: Waist-up portrait of Julius Sinykin. He is wearing eyeglasses, a suit and a bow tie, and has a ring on the his left hand and a watch on his left wrist.
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John B.Davis WKOW-TV News Editor

Date: 09 10 1953
Description: Portrait of John B. Davis, WKOW news editor, sitting at a table behind a microphone.
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WKOW-TV Telethon

Date: 09 12 1953
Description: Fourteen men and women (one in a wheelchair) sitting around a dining table in a restaurant (Hoffman House?) as part of the WKOW-TV telethon (?).
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General Beverage Employees

Date: 09 14 1953
Description: Two General Beverage Sales Co. employees. One man is sitting behind a desk, and the other man is looking over his shoulder.
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Muscular Dystrophy Telethon

Date: 09 15 1953
Description: Man and woman looking at a box of money in relation to a WKOW-TV Muscular Dystrophy telethon to raise money for a cure of the disease.
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Scenes from Madison Barbershops

Date: 09 29 1953
Description: Barber Roy Brumley cutting the hair of R.J. Best in the Belmont barbershop.
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Scenes from Madison Barbershops

Date: 09 29 1953
Description: Tom Morrow reading a magazine while getting a haircut by barber Juell Solberg at the Union Bus Station barbershop.
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Scenes from Madison Barbershops

Date: 09 29 1953
Description: Barber Henry Palan cutting the hair of Billy Mayer in the Park Hotel barbershop.
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Scenes from Madison Barbershops

Date: 09 29 1953
Description: Some people still like to get a barber-shave, like this man who has a hot towel draped around his face.
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American Society of Tool Engineers Institute

Date: 11 19 1953
Description: Discussion at a dinner program. From left to right are: Robert R. Larsen and T.W. Johnson from Marinette; Roy Lindberg, University of Wisconsin; M.S. Phoen...
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American Society of Tool Engineers Institute

Date: 11 19 1953
Description: Two attendees listening to a presentation, Fred L. Todd in a pinstripe suit of Madison Vocational School (left), and Dr. A.O. Schmidt holding a drink from ...
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American Society of Tool Engineers Institute

Date: 11 19 1953
Description: Local attendees (left to right) A.J. Mergem and Larry Ellis from Gisholt Machine Company; E.J. Skidmore from Ohio Chemical Company; Fred Kessenich, Madison...

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